Steve Bogart

Instead of insisting on the SankeyMATIC format for specifying flows, allow people to just copy some cells from a spreadsheet and paste them in & get the results they expect....

Come up with an intuitive syntax for these extra features: - Substituting text for Node labels, as in: - within the flow specs, always use a nice short unique name...

Allow Cycles

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Somehow enable good-looking cycles in flow diagrams. Various folks have begun solutions to this, but I haven't seen one I love yet.

Let user specify the column for a node

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Some nodes can appear correctly in one of several columns. Imagine a source node for a node in column 4 -- it could correctly appear in column 1, 2, or...

Sample diagram with this incorporated: http://www.iea.org/Sankey/

Linkable saved diagrams

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For any diagram in process, provide (either upon request or on every change) a URL which a person could use to return to the graph in its current state. This...

Allow user to set the vertical node order

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Currently the order of nodes is determined by relaxing the graph over several iterations, with nodes usually ordered from largest to smallest (top to bottom). This is usually fine. However,...

Allow user to choose top, center, or bottom of the graph as the starting point for layout.

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Currently all graphs start from the top and are spread out downwards as the layout iterates. This works fine for ordinary Sankeys but doesn't look good for Funnels (see #15)....

Sankeys are sometimes used to show funnels, i.e. flows where you start with a large population and monotonically decrease the amounts as a process moves through phases. These sorts of...

This probably needs another input screen entirely, but much of the same underlying JavaScript. - Take as input a spreadsheet listing multiple years of a budget. - Produce a separate...